the writer (me)
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
— Virginia Woolf
how many people you touched > how many people you reached
Creativity is inherently anti-authoritarian. As in: to be successfully creative, you have to shed the part of yourself that desperately wants reassurance. It’s only then that you can escape cliche and escape paradigmatic thinking.
Paul Gauguin • writing as autonomy
it’s not the being that matters, but the doing. Instead of being a writer, I just wrote. Instead of being a filmmaker, I made a movie.
A life in constant potential.
What if criticism isn't a verdict but just another form of documentation? What if the fact that someone bothered to write about your work—even negatively—is evidence that you've created something that demands a response?
A pro views her work as craft, not art. Not because she believes art is devoid of a mystical dimension. On the contrary. She understands that all creative endeavor is holy, but she doesn’t dwell on it. She knows if she thinks about that too much, it will paralyze her. So she concentrates on technique.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
The other day I saw a picnic table under a tree, and it stopped me.
God made the tree. People made the table.
It reminded me of what T.D. Jakes once said: God didn’t make tables, He made trees — and He gave you a brain to imagine what those trees could be.
That table was a “creation from creation.” And it’s not just furniture — it’s a setting for life
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